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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-01-07, Page 2JIM IRE ` CONQUEROR By PETER B. KYNE. Illustrated by Allen Dean 8 NOPSIS Don Jaime Miguel Higuenes, Texas rancher, and Tom Antrim, sheep owner, are sworn enemies. Antrim attacks Don Jaime fro a u Capt, Ifen Hobart, formerly of the sTexas Bangers, nqw Don Jaime's manager, rescues Don Jamie and finds Tom Antrim dead. Hobert° Antrith is notified of her uncle's death at the hands of one Jimmy Higgins. Don Jaime plans to deal with Torn Antrim's Men. CHAPTER VIII.—(Cont'd.) The man, galloped away. Don Jaime smoked contentedly, while Mrs. Can- by watched him with curiosity. Pre- sently Ken Hobart came to announce his impending departure. "Delay it until tomorrow, Ken," his employer ordered casually: "I have a job for you." And he recounted the tale brought by his visitor. "Take forty men and ride for the river. If this man's tale is the truth you will have work there. I think, however,' he lies. Have Caraveo arm the other men and instruct him to have them remain in the barns with their horses until I send him word that he is not going to be needed." "A plant, eh?" "I've been expecting reprisal, Ken. I told this messenger I had but forty men available, but would send them immediately. Go with them. Then we shall see what we shall see. I smell sheep." Hobart departed, and Don Jaime turned to Mrs. Ganby. "Please tell Flavio to assist me to enter my house," he said. "There is more dust to the south. We shall have visitors —about ten, I think." The old peon pinked. Don Jaime up, carried him inside and laid him on', sofa. Then he departed casually. "You will oblige me by bolting that door, Mrs. Canby," Don Jaime re - 'attested gently. Presently came the sound of hurry- ing feet on the veranda, and through the iron -barred tin•; window that gave on the veranda Mrs. Ganby saw men standing about. Thera came a rap on the door. "Who's there?" Don Jaime chal- lenged. "Open the door," a rough voice com- manded. "We -cant you." "Ah, Bill Dingle. I have been ex- pecting you, ever since you so thought- fulIy sent one of your men with a false cry of raiders from below the Border. I sent forty men. Your look- out saw them ride out, and when they had passed you decided to come to my hacienda, deserted save for the women and children, and kill me in some unpleasant manner. Is it not sop" There was no answer to this and Don Jaime's mocking laugh floated through the window. "Now, Dingle, consider the situation. A hundred armed men surround this poor house of mine. Go to the patio entrance and look." A murmuring rose among the re- cent arrivals, and one of them ran to the entrance of the patio. A volley of curses echoed thrcegh the garden, then the, man came running back. "Is seeing believing, Senor Dingle?" Don Jaime called pleasantly. "You win, Higuenes." "One by one you will go to the entrance and give up your arms to my riding boss. It would be madness to resist. You shall not be killed and presently you shall all return to your sheeps—I mean sheep. Forward! March 1" A moment's hesitation, and the re- treat to the entrance commenced. A few minutes later Enrico Caraveo thrust a smiling, sardonic face up to the grilled window, "I have the honor to inform Don Jaime that his visitors await his pleasure." "Confine them in the barn under guard. Feed them." Mrs. Ganby, white-faced, speechless with terror, watched Don Jaime blow- ing smoke rings. "Don Jaime Higuenes," she de - mended, "after that exhibition of in- gratitude on the part of those sheep - men, are you still going to permit them to trespass on your range?" Don Jaime raised a deprecating hand. "An Higuenes," he assured her "does not quarrel with a woman." Mrs. Ganby's eyes blazed. "Now, at least," sh•e declared, "I know why Cervantes wrote Don Quixote.. Only a Spaniard could have conceived such a character and only a Spaniard could --could--could—" "Senora," Don Jaime protested, "my name is Jimmy Higgins." CHAPTEE, IX. Roberta Antrim's limousine rolled up the graveled driveway to the wide portals of Hillcrest, and Harms, the but`.er, came down the steps and open- ed the door. "Mr. Latham came home an hour ago, miss," he confided. "Something must have happened in the city today, miss. He's Worried—walking up and down the drawing -room and talking to himself. I'm a bit worried about the master, miss." "Thank you, Harms. You're very' kind." A foreboding of disaster brought Roberta flying into the living -room. Crooked Bill sat htiddled in a reading chair, his face in his hands, his atti • tudo reminiseont of profound de- spair, "Uncle Bill! What's happened?' Crooked Bill's old hands merely clasped his features tighter. Ile wag- gedhis head and moaned. "Are you in pain, Uncle Bill?" "The market only jumped fifteen points. I'm through. My brokers sold me out this afternoon. Oh, Bobby, Bobby, what a massacre! I stayed as long as I dared, but when the last jump 'came I realized that only a crazy man would continue in this crazy market. I declined to invest an- her dollar for the reason that I didn't have it. I told my brokers I'd gone the limit and to sell me out. My five thousand dumped on the market like that broke the stock two points, but that was to be expected. I'm ell washed up." "Must we leave Hi'ici•est?" Roberta queried in a strangled voice. "We must," Crooked Bill replied heroically. "I nave enough to pay off the servants and maintain us in rea- pectabijity at some modest hotel until we can look around and see what the future holds for us, but after that—" "After that I'll take care of you, dear Uncle Bill." Roberta's voice was very tender, the touch of her lovely cheek to Crooked Bill's wrinkled jowls was very soothing to that wretched wreck of a financier. "Sheep are up and so is wool, Uncle Bill. Don Pru- dencio Alviso writes me that Uncle Tom's sheep are worth at least two hundred thousand as they stand, and he has over a hundred thousand pounds of wool in transit to a wool house in Boston. And good wool is ' quoted in today's paper at thirty cents a pound. Uncle Tom has a ranch of sorts also. Don Prudencio doesn't think much of .t and says it is not of ready sale, but we can live there and carry on in the sheep business—" Hazards � wardme completely out of control, Motoring I az To my •• ht was a steep drop over an n • embankment, awl' to my left the side e, urge of• a hill. The road was harrow, so that it was impossible for mo to pull ono side. It seemed that nothing could prevent a heacnon crash. An instant's. delay meant positive disaster, so that almost automatically I decided to take the leap over the sheer edge, and dropped into thiels bueh, fifteen feet *low the level of the trail. Fortun- ately I was unhurt. Aftere b ush to t awayh havingc u t . make a path by which to extract the car, I found to my pleasure that the engine was in order, and the car un- damaged except for the bent starting- handle, tartinghandle, So with little delay, and the help of friendly villagers a couple of miles away, I was able to bring the car up the Bank on its own power. This curious fall was my most serious mishap during hundreds of miles of motor -trekking in tropical Africa. Travel. Richard St. Barbe Baker, late In the course of one of my tours I Assistant Conservator of Forest, Ken- conducted a party of chiefs and head - Ya Colony and Nigeria, was making meat to the Calabar Exhibition across his way through the jungle for Benin the Niger. A convoy of cars and vans and a party of friends, as fast as carried the chiefs, their retinues, and motor and wheels could take him. He exhibits. I thoroughly enjoyed the tells the story of his ensuing advert- keen and intelligent interest in the ture in an article on "Motoring in ,driving of my car shown by the Ashodi Equatorial Africa." I of Benin, who was my passenger. Suddenly disaster loomed In his Other chiefs were owners themselves. path. One of them, Chief Mom. of Auchi, "I was speeding along," he writes, was an all-round sportsman and the when "1 saw just ahead of me a tall proud owner of a race -course. forest tree falling across my path. I The readiness of the chiefs in adapt - "I was traveling too fast to pull up, ing themselves to the use of the motor and so I stepped on the gas, and got • "is shown in their increasing tendency under just in time for the forest giant 'to demand a high-powered car which to crash down across the trail behind 'will become practicable as the roads me. 'improve," Mr. Baker tells us as his "I stopped and got out of my car, ! narrative runs on: thankful to be alive. 1 Already, during the past few years, "After saying a heartfelt 'Te Deum,' , thanks to the policy of the Govern - I proceeded on my journey only to find ment, there have been great develop- ments in road improvement and con- struction. This is especially notable on the road from Lagos to Ibadan, and long stretches of it are now equal to any first-class roads n other parts of the world. Incidentally, the bend on A vicious gale was raging through the African forest, It twisted and tore tender saplings, It shivered older and sturdier tree trunks. And at some of the huge, ma- jestie arboreal kings of the Nigerian jungle it tugged and wrenched until they were uprooted and came crashing down thunderously, crushingIing all th at was in their way. No time for the timid to be abroad! Cautious men and cautious beasts had deckled that discretion was the better part of valor, and had taken to cover. But no, not 'all. On the road from Sapoba to Benin, "by the old trail by way of Agbor," was a notable excep- tion. Along the narrow trail a motor- car was "speeding along as fast as the bends would permit," we read in around the next bend a still greater obstacle in the shape of a larger tree, which had also fallen directly across my trail. "This is the only time that I was actually trapped between two trees, and my thankfulness at having es- the side of the his land the scene of caped alive prevented my annoyance my adventure has been more than at not being able to meet my friends trebled in width, and now there is a from England." ; splendid sweep upon which one can Fallen trees, Mr. Baker explains, aro speed without fear of a collision. one of the hazards of jungle motoring. I Occasionally, during the tornado You never know when one may block season in the rain -forest region, one your progress. Sometimes there is comes across a fallen tree, but delays nothing for it but to cut through the need not be long, for no motorist in obstacle. But now and then, when these parts would be without a sharp you are playing in luck, one may fall axe. When a number of sturdy tribes - across a gully in bridge -like manner, men arrive on the scene little time is leaving enough space beneath for you lost in cutting a way through. to pass through. Or, in case you don't; in some parts of Africa travel is encounter a fallen tree, you are as very difficult, if not impossible, during likely as not to run plump into a giant the rainy season. In Nigeria, how - ant -hill, as tall as yourself. These ever, with a light car, one can trek anthills are another reason' why the right through the rains In some cases jungle motorist seldom know dullness. newly cut trails are improved and But, in spite of such hazards as hardened by a heavy downpour, and these, Mr. Baker assures us, "trekking. in consequence traveling is made in the tropics is no longer the arduous easier. It is safe to say that on later - business that it once was." ite and sandy soils the roads are equal - Mr. Baker believes that he has prob- ly good all the year round. On the ably motored farther in Africa thartrlow-lying grounds, where almost pure any of his contemporaries, and it was sand is met with, the roads are even the exception rather than the rule for heavier in the dry season. him to use the best roads. He tra- I . In the African tropics the hinter- veled in a light car, which was invalu- land is rapidly being opened up able in trail -breaking, and in the ,"through increased opportunities for course of a 10,000 -mile trek he was not the transportation of raw products to once delayed through a breakdown or the coast," -we are told further: a serious accident. Automatically, cars that prove their Throughout the whole of his jour- merit will be in increasing demand, neys, the only damage other than that not only by the chiefs and headmen, necessitating tire replacement was a ; but by others as they prosper. The bent starting handle and a few dents 'primitiveness of his environment does to a fender. • (not necessarily prevent the African This bent starting -handle was "the, native from discriminating most wise - result of a spectacular drop over a ! ly, and when once convinced of the steep embankment," of which we are integrity and service rendered, his told: (natural conservatism makes him loath I was driving from Lagos to Ibadan to change. in the Southern Provinces of Nigeria.I To -day, the automobile is an accom- Rounding a sharp bend on the side of i plished fact in Africa. Whatever the a hill, I met a loaded lorry coming to season of the year, whether in torren- You have no conception of what you are proposing to me," Crooked Bill groaned. "Sheep are terrible." "Well, you've always taken care of me, haven't you, darling? What a poor sport I'd be to desert you when you're down and out. No, no, dear. We'll battle along together to the last sheep." Uncle Bill Latham sighed and gazed drearily out the window. "If you'd only fixed it up to marry Glenn Hack- ett—" "If we didn't have those sheep and the wool I'd marry him and risk learn- ing to love him, just to keep you from worrying about me," Roberta assured him heroically. "But, of course, thanks to that odious Jim Higgins, I find my- self in rather an independent position. We will sell off all the sheep and wool and live comfortably and economically on the income from that until—" "Hackett is coining for dinner," he interrupted. "Be nice to him. He's my attorney, of coarse, and I'll have to tell him what's happened to me. If he elects to forget that idiotic tiff you and he had recently, for heaven's sake hold out the olive branch, You'll never have a chance at a better man, Bobby." "Perhaps he will not be interested in me, now that I am not your heir- ess, as I dare say he believed me to be once." "Well, give him a chance to play his hand," Crooked Bill protested. "Promise me, Bobby, that if he re- news his suit you'll accord him kindly and respectful consideration." In her great distress at the catas- trophe which had overtaken her guar- dian Roberta was in a mood to prom- ise anything—and did. Crooked Bill appeared to rally immediately and mixed himself a noggin of his favor- ite beverage. Roberta was dressing when she heard Glenn Hackett's car rolling up the driveway. She looked out her window and called, "Hello, old stick- inLthe-mudl How are you?" He favored her with a not very enthusiastic wave of his hand before his car disappeared under the porte- eochere. "Still holding his little grudge," Roberta thought. "Well, I don't blame him. Nevertheless I loathe sulky men." Crooked Bill received his guest at the door and at once conducted him to the Abrary, where the old schemer's favorite penenthe awaited. "I've got to talk fast, my boy," he began, "before Roberta comes down. In the first place you must brace yourself for a not very cheerful din- ner. I'm supposed to have gone bust in the market --Hillcrest has been gobbled up by my bankers to meet my notes, I'm down to a couple of thousand dollars." Glenn Hackett stared at the old gentleman owlishly. He was a man who seldom asked questions before he had all the facts in hand. Crooked Bill continued: "I hope I do not have to assure you, Glenn, that in so far as Bobby is eon- cerned I'm for you all the way." "Thank you very much," Hackett replied. "I have suspected as mtieh for quite a while." (To be continued.) ee— ANNOYANCE Proud Owner Displays Champion Calf By a patient and loving endurance "Midnight," 10 -months -old Polled Angus calf, and his owner, Dorothy of annoyances are we preparing our-, selves gradually for the discipline of Henry, aged 20, Charleston, Ill, ""Midnight" won grand championship s s g trials.—Dean Goulburn. , of the annual calf club contest in St. Louis, Mo. Salada Green tea drinkers drink the best green tea IP GREEN TEA` • 'Fresh from the gardens*. tial rains or glaring sun, in towns or%ha} New York trekking along tropic trails, one's car is invaluable for travel and protection. The automobile has largely eliminated human strain, and has made it possible to travel long distances in several days BY ANNEBELLE WORTHINGTON which formerly took as many months. The man without a car in Africa to- day, whether he be native or Euro- pean, is severely handicapped. When You Are Old passed Is Wearing When you are old, and I am away— Passed, and your face, your face, is gray— I think, whate'er the end, this dream of mine Comforting you, a friendly star shine Down the dim slopes, where you stumble and stray. So may it be: that so dead Yester- day, No sad -eyed ghost, but generous and gay May serve your memories like al: mighty wine, When ycu are golden will still Dear Heart, it shall be the sway Of death the past's enormous ray Lies hushed and dark. 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